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We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…

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A method for solving a quasilinear nonelliptical equation of the second order is developed and we give classification and parametrization of simple elements of the equation.We find exact solutions of an equation for potential stationary…

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We study image inverse problems with a normalizing flow prior. Our formulation views the solution as the maximum a posteriori estimate of the image conditioned on the measurements. This formulation allows us to use noise models with…

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An inverse problem of wave propagation into a weakly laterally inhomogeneous medium occupying a half-space is considered in the acoustic approximation. The half-space consists of an upper layer and a semi-infinite bottom separated with an…

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We propose an iterative method to find pointwise growth exponential growth rates in linear problems posed on essentially one-dimensional domains. Such pointwise growth rates capture pointwise stability and instability in extended systems…

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Strongly nonlinear models of internal wave propagation for incompressible stratified Euler fluids are investigated numerically and analytically to determine the evolution of a class of initial conditions of interest in laboratory…

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Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common partial differential equations used to model physical phenomenon. They arise as the combination of two physical processes: a driving force $f(u)$ that depends on the state variable $u$…

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This paper presents a study of nonlinear superpositions of Riemann wave solutions admitted by quasilinear hyperbolic first-order systems of partial differential equations. In particular, we focus on the Euler system and non-elastic wave…

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Accurate solutions to inverse supersonic compressible flow problems are often required for designing specialized aerospace vehicles. In particular, we consider the problem where we have data available for density gradients from Schlieren…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ameya D. Jagtap , Zhiping Mao , Nikolaus Adams , George Em Karniadakis

We are concerned with the well-posedness of an inverse problem for determining the wedge boundary and associated two-dimensional steady supersonic Euler flow past the wedge, provided that the pressure distribution on the boundary surface of…

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We consider a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws in one space dimension. A sharp decay estimate is proved for the positive waves in an entropy weak solution. The result is stated in terms of a partial…

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We consider the evolution of ultra-short optical pulses in linear and nonlinear media. For the linear case, we first show that the initial-boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations in which a pulse is injected into a quiescent medium…

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The derivation of different models of non linear acoustic in thermo-ellastic media as the Kuznetsov equation, the Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov (KZK) equation and the Nonlinear Progressive wave Equation (NPE) from an isentropic…

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We study the nonlinear wave equation for arbitrary function with fourth order dissipation. A special case that is analysed exclusively is the model of nerve membranes; we consider this model, both, in the presence and absence of the fourth…

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This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $\Delta u + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 David Johansson , Janne Nurminen , Mikko Salo

We construct and justify leading order weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions for nonlinear hyperbolic initial value problems, including the compressible Euler equations. The technique of simultaneous Picard iteration is employed to…

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We consider an inverse problem of recovering a parameter appearing in all levels in a second-order hyperbolic equation from a single boundary measurement. The model is motivated from applications in photoacoustic tomography when one seeks…

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This paper investigates inverse potential problems of wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. We develop a methodology for establishing stability estimates for inversion of lower order coefficients. The new ingredients of our approach…

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